Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Kaplan received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Catholic University of America and completed a five-year predoctoral fellowship in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, prior to joining the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living in 2010.

Her research interests include examining psychological and neuropsychological processes in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, cultural and ethnic differences in anxiety disorders, efficacy and effectiveness of individual and group treatments for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and the role of psychological, physiological, and the interplay between these variables as they contribute to the etiology and maintenance of these disorders.

Dr. Kaplan’s clinical interests include working with adolescents, adults, and older adults with panic disorder, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (i.e., Trichotillomania, Skin Picking), and generalized anxiety disorder.

Currently Dr. Kaplan is serving as a project administrator and therapist for the NIMH treatment study, “Exposure, D-Cycloserine Enhancement, and genetic Modulators in Panic Disorder.”

Dr. Worden received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Greater Hartford Internship Consortium (VA Connecticut Healthcare System, UCONN Health Center, and Community Mental Health Associates).

Her clinical and research interests include treatment outcome assessment and mechanisms of change underlying empirically-supported treatments.

She has particular experience with cognitive-behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance dependence.